11.25.2015

Greens ‘smuggle’ climate policy into the church to tip climate politics

By Marita Noon Without the evangelical community’s involvement, efforts to build a “broad coalition to pass major climate policies” are “doomed,” according to a just-released report from New America — a nonprofit group that claims to be “dedicated to the renewal of American politics, prosperity, and purpose in […]

11.23.2015

Manufacturing threatened by Obama’s Boiler MACT rules

By Dustin Howard What’s a Boiler MACT? MACT stands for the Maximum Achievable Control Technology, and is the focus of recently revised rules by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). To comply with rules justified by the President’s 2011 Executive Order 13563, industrial operations that generate their own […]

11.20.2015

Ethanol loses its few friends

By Marita Noon Early in his campaign, now top-tier Republican presidential candidate, Ben Carson, supported ethanol — a position for which I called him out. It has long been thought, that to win in Iowa, a candidate must support ethanol . However, in a major policy reversal, Carson […]

11.19.2015

Time for Congress to defund sue and settle

By Rick Manning In July, Representative Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) took on the little known radical environmentalist scam known as “sue and settle” where a green group acting in cahoots with the EPA or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sues the Agency demanding that they apply the law […]

11.18.2015

Regulating America out of the oil shale fracking business

By Dustin Howard Prior to his reelection, President Barack Obama said that the U.S. is the “Saudi Arabia of natural gas.” Like so many things, the President has no problem publically taking credit for what his Administration privately disrupts. Earlier this year, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued controversial rules on hydraulic […]

11.16.2015

On climate change, Catholic leaders must believe in miracles

By Marita Noon For the first time, “Catholic leaders representing all regional and national bishops conferences” have come together in a “joint appeal.” According to reporting in the New York Times, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, archbishop of Mumbai, India, called the October 26 meeting at the Vatican […]

11.12.2015

Stop Obama’s power plant rules

By Rick Manning As published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/259700-stop-obamas-power-plant-rules A major battle over President Obama’s plan to deindustrialize America is heating up in Congress as Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) has taken the first step toward overturning two of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) most egregious rules in its war on coal. What’s […]

11.11.2015

Republicans should fund and open Yucca Mountain

By Robert Romano One has to wonder if Gerald Ford, when he issued an executive decree in 1976 suspending nuclear fuel reprocessing , and Jimmy Carter, when in 1977 he made the prohibition permanent, understood what a big problem they were creating. Namely, if not to be reused, what should be […]

11.04.2015

The march to Paris has begun

By Marita Noon Less than one month from now the nations of the world will meet in Paris for the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( COP21 ). During the November 30 to December […]

10.28.2015

Tesla’s ‘success,’ a great example of how government regulations manipulate markets

By Marita Noon The American consumer is resistant to marketing aimed at selling them electric and hybrid vehicles. For the first quarter of 2015, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Chevrolet sold 1874 Volts — its electric car introduced in 2010 with “high expectations.” That […]

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